The Living Museum in
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
,
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
, United States, is an art studio dedicated to presenting the art produced by patients at the
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital at 79-26 Winchester Boulevard in Queens Village, Queens, New York, United States. It provides inpatient, outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients. The hospita ...
, the largest state psychiatric care institution in New York City. It is the first museum of its kind in the United States.
Jessica Yu
Jessica Lingmin Yu (born February 14, 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows.
Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in ...
's 1998
documentary ''The Living Museum'' profiles the museum and some of its artists.
See also
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Outsider Art
Outsider art is art made by self-taught or supposedly naïve artists with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrate ...
Sources
History page from the Living Museum website
External links
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* http://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/crpc/visitor_guide.htm Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Patient Visitor Guide] - NYS Office of Mental Health, includes the Living Museum
Art From The Living Museumat Dabora Gallery
The Living Museum: Art as Asylum-Bully for You. American Psychological Association Convention 2009
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Contemporary art galleries in the United States
Culture of New York City
Art museums and galleries in Queens, New York